LOXOPHLEBIA. By Dr. M. Dratjdt. 
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Ph. regesta sp. nov. (12 e) is allied to daphaena. Body black-brown. Collar vermilion, bordered by regesla. 
black; on the shoulders a small indistinct red spot, shoulder-covers red-striped. The abdomen exhibits small 
dorsal and subdorsal spots of very sparse metallic blue-green scales which are somewhat more prominent towards 
the anal end. Antennae shortly before the tips white. The wings are hyaline and strongly iridescent; margins 
black-brown. Median spot very large, almost circular; apical spot very extensive; also on the lower median 
vein the distal margin projects far inward. 1 $ from Cuyaba, Province of Matto Grosso (Bang-Haas). 
Ph. daphaena Hmps. (12 e) has a black body; forehead and vertex are white-spotted; collar, shoulders daphaena. 
and shoulder-covers with large carmine spots. The abdomen exhibits on the first segment 2 white dorsal spots, 
on the following segments metallic-green subdorsal spots, which are more and more laterally placed towards 
the anal end; the 2 first rings on the ventral side white. The hyaline forewings are broadly striped carmine 
at the costal and inner margin; distal margins, median and apical spots black. Flying in Dominica and Santa 
Lucia. 
Ph. utica Druce (12 e). The absent red subcostal stripes of the forewings easily distinguish the species utica. 
from daphaena which it otherwise resembles very much; the abdomen shows above likewise 2 large white streak¬ 
like spots, the metallic-green colour, however, is altogether absent. Expanse of wings: 26 mm. Mexico (Guerrero). 
Ph. lateralis Klages is allied to the preceding, from which it is easily distinguished by broad, carmine lateralis. 
subdorsal stripes on the abdomen, which suddenly grow narrower beginning from the 6th segment, being also 
placed more laterally and turning more orange. The 3 first rings exhibit a broad white ventral stripe. The 
abdomen exhibits above yet 2 rows of golden-green spots. Venezuela. 
Ph. sandix sp. nov. (12 e) is very nearly allied to the preceding species and is exteriorly easily discernible sandix. 
by the orange, not carmine colour. The head is black-brown, in the neck 2 small white spots. Collar, shoulders, 
shoulder-covers and thorax orange; shoulder-covers distally black-margined, on the pronotum 2 round black 
spots. Abdomen black-brown; the first segment exhibits 2 yellowish-white subdorsal longitudinal spots, the 
other rings small, metallic-blue, subdorsal spots, as well as broad, orange lateral stripes; on the 2nd and 3rd 
segments this stripe extends as far as the ventral side. Antennae black with white tips; legs black-brown, 
median tarsi white. The wings are hyaline, at the base, the costal and proximal margins broad orange, finely 
bordered by black; a square median spot, the distal margin, apical spot and a spot below the lower median 
vein are brownish black. 1 $ from Cuyaba (Bang-Haas). 
Ph. albisigna Whr. (12 f) is one of the larger species of quite black-brown colour of the body; on the albisigna. 
neck and mesothorax small white spots; on the collar and shoulder-covers carmine dots. The abdomen exhibits 
on the first ring above a large, square, yellowish-white spot; the 2nd and 3rd segments are laterally yellowish, 
beneath white; forehips and spots at the sides of the thorax white. Wings hyaline with black margins, discoidal 
and apical spots. Widely distributed and not rare from Honduras, Venezuela, Guiana, the Amazon District. 
Ph. bisigna Kaye is easily discernible from the preceding by its smaller size and two white spots bisigna. 
above on each of the first two abdominal rings; on the shoulder-covers large, carmine spots, collar quite black. 
Expanse of wings: 27 mm. British Guiana. May be a Loxophlebia and identical with klagesi which would then 
become synonymous. 
23. Genus: H^oxoplilebia Btlr. 
Like Pheia, but the middle radial vein of the forewing rises distinctly above the cell-angle. By this 
distinctive mark it also greatly resembles the genus Mesothen from which it is discernible by the lion-angled, 
very obliquely running discocellular of the hindwing. 
L. picta Whr. (12 f). This pretty, small species is easily recognizable. The head is black, forehead picta. 
and tips of antennae are white. Thorax and abdomen are orange-red with a black, blue-spotted median stripe; 
the first abdominal ring exhibits silvery-white subdorsal spots; the 2 last segments are quite blue-black. On 
the hyaline wings are of orange-yellow colour: the base, a subcostal stripe, the lowest subcostal, the radial 
veins and the upper median vein and a spot at the distal margin below the upper median vein, on the hindwings 
all the veins and the basal half of the inner -margin are yellow. Distributed from Guiana to the Amazon (Para). 
L. flavipicta Schaus. Head and palpi black with a white forehead. Thorax and abdomen orange- flavipicta. 
yellow; a large median spot on the abdomen, as well as the 2 last rings black with metallic scales. Legs yellow, 
tibiae and tarsi partly brown. The wings are hyaline; the base is yellow, behind it at the proximal margin there 
is a black spot and at the costal margin a black stripe as far as the transverse vein which is broadly black; 
at the inner-angle there is a black spot, and the apex is broadly black. The costal margin behind the middle, 
the distal margin between the lower median vein and the lower radial, the inner-margin in the middle, the radial 
veins and the upper median vein are yellow, the median and the lower median vein are black. On the hindwing 
the apical part of the distal margin, a stripe at the anal angle, and the base of the lower median vein are 
black, all the rest yellow. Expanse of the wings: 20 mm. Costa Rica (Sixola). 
